jangleor

Old French

Alternative forms

• gangleür
• jangleu
• jangleür
• jeinglour
• jogleor

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin iocor, ioculor (“to joke, to jest”).

Noun

jangleor oblique singular, m (oblique plural jangleors, nominative singular janglere, nominative plural jangleor)

1. jongleur; raconteur; storyteller
2. (by extension) a liar

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: jogelour, jugelur
  • → Middle English: jogeler, jogelour, iogular (partly; also continuing Old English ġeogolere (“wizard”))
    • English: juggler
• French: jongleur
  • → English: jongleur
  • → Czech: žongler
  • → Danish: jonglør
  • → Dutch: jongleur
  • → English: jongleur
  • → Russian: жонглёр (žongljór)
  • → German: Jongleur
  • → Hungarian: zsonglőr
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: žònglēr

    Cyrillic script: жо̀нгле̄р

  • → Slovak: žonglér
  • → Turkmen: žonglýor